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Preface \\ About the Authors \\ PART I. PREPARING FOR DATA ANALYSIS \\ Chapter 1. Introduction: The Theory and Practice of Social Research \\ Overview \\ Why Use a Database? \\ SPSS Statistics \\ Social Research: A Primer \\ Concepts and Theories: Deprivation Theory \\ Variables and Hypotheses: Religiosity \\ Social Research Strategies: Inductive and Deductive \\ Theory and Research in Practice \\ Conclusion \\ Chapter 2. The Logic of Measurement \\ Validity Problems \\ Reliability Problems \\ Distinguishing Between Validity and Reliability \\ Multiple Indicators \\ Levels of Measurement \\ Measurement and Information \\ Measurement Options \\ Classifying Variables as Discrete or Continuous \\ Conclusion \\ Chapter 3. Description of Data Sets: The General Social Survey \\ Sampling \\ Data Collection \\ The Codebook: Appendix A \\ Conclusion \\ PART II. UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS \\ Chapter 4. Using SPSS Statistics: Some Basics \\ Demonstration 4.1: Starting an SPSS Statistics Session \\ Demonstration 4.2: Exploring the Data View Portion of the Data Editor \\ Demonstration 4.3: Entering Data—a Preview \\ Demonstration 4.4: Loading a Data Set \\ Demonstration 4.5: Raw Data in Data View \\ Finding Variable Information: Values and Labels \\ Demonstration 4.6: Variable View Tab \\ Demonstration 4.7: Ending Your SPSS Statistics Session \\ Conclusion \\ Chapter 5. Describing Your Data: Religiosity \\ Demonstration 5.1: Opening Frequently Used Data Files \\ Demonstration 5.2: Setting Options—Variable Lists and Output Labels \\ Demonstration 5.3: Frequency Distributions \\ Demonstration 5.4: Frequency Distributions—Running Two or More Variables at One Time \\ Descriptive Statistics: Basic Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion \\ Demonstration 5.5: The Frequencies Procedure \\ Demonstration 5.6: The Descriptives Procedure—Calculating Descriptive Statistics for Continuous Variables \\ Demonstration 5.7: Printing Your Output (Viewer) \\ Demonstration 5.8: Adding Headers/Footers and Titles/Text \\ Demonstration 5.9: Saving Your Output (Viewer) \\ Demonstration 5.10: Saving Changes to Your Data Set \\ Conclusion \\ Chapter 6. Presenting Your Data in Graphic Form: Political Orientations \\ Graphing Data With Direct “Legacy” Dialogs \\ Demonstration 6.1: Frequency Table—POLVIEWS \\ Demonstration 6.2: SPSS Statistics Chart Editor \\ Demonstration 6.3: Frequency Table—PARTYID \\ Demonstration 6.4: Political Attitudes \\ Demonstration 6.5: Histogram—AGE \\ Demonstration 6.6: Line Chart—INCOME \\ Saving and Printing Your Charts \\ Conclusion \\ Chapter 7. Recoding Your Data: Religiosity and Political Orientations \\ Demonstration 7.1: Modifying Variables With Recode—ATTEND ? CHATT \\ Demonstration 7.2: Recoding AGE ? AGECAT \\ Demonstration 7.3: Recoding POLVIEWS ? POLREC \\ Demonstration 7.4: Recoding PARTYID ? PARTY \\ Demonstration 7.5: Saving Changes to Your Data Set \\ Conclusion \\ Chapter 8. Creating Composite Measures: Exploring Attitudes Toward Abortion in More Depth \\ Demonstration 8.1: Identifying the Seven Abortion Variables—File Info \\ Demonstration 8.2: Running Frequencies for Several Variables at Once \\ Index: A Form of Composite Measure \\ Demonstration 8.3: ABORT Index \\ Demonstration 8.4: Defining ABORT \\ Demonstration 8.5: Checking New Index—Comparing Scores on Old and New Variables \\ Demonstration 8.6: Running Frequencies for ABORT \\ Demonstration 8.7: ABINDEX \\ Demonstration 8.8: Running Frequencies \\ Conclusion \\ Chapter 9. Suggestions for Further Analysis \\ Desired Family Size \\ Demonstration 9.1: Respondents’ Ideal Family Size (CHLDIDEL) \\ Child-Rearing \\ Demonstration 9.2: Important Qualities for Children \\ Attitudes About Sexual Behavior \\ Demonstration 9.3: Index of Sexual Permissiveness \\ Prejudice \\ Conclusion \\ PART III. BIVARIATE ANALYSIS \\ Chapter 10. Examining the Sources of Religiosity \\ The Deprivation Theory of Religiosity \\ Testing Our Hypothesis: Correlating Religiosity and Gender \\ Demonstration 10.1: Running Crosstabs to Test Our Hypothesis \\ Demonstration 10.2: Interpreting a Crosstab With Limited Categories \\ Demonstration 10.3: Correlating Another Measure of Religiosity and Gender \\ Drawing Conclusions Carefully: Reassessing Our Original Hypothesis \\ Demonstration 10.4: Interpreting a Crosstab With Ordinal Variables—Religiosity and Age \\ Demonstration 10.5: Correlating Other Measures of Religiosity and Age \\ Conclusion \\ Chapter 11. Political Orientations as Cause and Effect \\ The Relationship Between POLVIEWS and PARTYID \\ Demonstration 11.1: POLREC by PARTY \\ Demonstration 11.2: PARTY by POLREC \\ Demonstration 11.3: POLREC by AGECAT \\ Demonstration 11.4: PARTY by AGECAT \\ Demonstration 11.5: POLREC by RELIG \\ Demonstration 11.6: PARTY by RELIG \\ Demonstration 11.7: PARTY and POLREC by SEX \\ Demonstration 11.8: POLREC by RACE \\ Demonstration 11.9: PARTY by RACE \\ Demonstration 11.10: Recoding EDUC ? EDCAT \\ Demonstration 11.11: POLREC by EDCAT \\ Demonstration 11.12: PARTY by EDCAT \\ Some Surprises: Class, Marital Status, and Politics \\ The Impact of Party and Political Philosophy \\ Saving Recoded Variable: EDCAT \\ Conclusion \\ Chapter 12. What Causes Different Attitudes Toward Abortion? \\ Demonstration 12.1: Gender and Abortion \\ Demonstration 12.2: Age and Abortion \\ Demonstration 12.3: Religion and Abortion \\ Demonstration 12.4: Politics and Abortion \\ Demonstration 12.5: Sexual Attitudes and Abortion \\ Other Factors You Can Explore on Your Own \\ Conclusion \\ Chapter 13. Measures of Association for Nominal and Ordinal Variables \\ The Logic of Statistical Association: Proportionate Reduction of Error \\ Lambda (?): A Measure Appropriate for Nominal Variables \\ Demonstration 13.1: Instructing SPSS Statistics to Calculate Lambda (?) \\ Interpreting Lambda and Other Measures \\ Gamma (?): A Measure Appropriate for Ordinal Variables \\ Demonstration 13.2: Instructing SPSS Statistics to Calculate Gamma (?)—Example 1 \\ Demonstration 13.3: Running Gamma (?)—Example 2 (Reverse Scoring Case) \\ Additional Measures of Association \\ Analyzing the Association Between Variables at Different Levels of Measurement \\ Conclusion \\ Chapter 14. Correlation and Regression Analysis \\ Pearson’s r: A Measure Appropriate for Interval/Ratio Variables \\ Interpreting Pearson’s r and the Coefficient of Determination (r2) \\ Instructing SPSS Statistics to Calculate Pearson’s r \\ Demonstration 14.1: Recoding RINCOM16 ? RECINC \\ Demonstration 14.2: Using SPSS Statistics to Compute Pearson’s r \\ Demonstration 14.3: Requesting Several Correlation Coefficients \\ Regression Analysis \\ Demonstration 14.4: Regression \\ Demonstration 14.5: Presenting Data Graphically—Producing a Scatterplot With a Regression Line \\ Measures of Association for Interval and Ratio Variables \\ Analyzing the Association Between Variables at Different Levels of Measurement \\ Conclusion \\ Chapter 15. Tests of Significance \\ Statistical Significance \\ Significance Tests: Part of the Larger Body of Inferential Statistics \\ Statistical Significance Versus Measures of Association \\ Chi-Square (c2) \\ Demonstration 15.1: Instructing SPSS Statistics to Calculate Chi-Square \\ Significance and Association \\ Demonstration 15.2: Instructing SPSS Statistics to Run Independent-Samples t Test \\ Demonstration 15.3: t Test—EDUC by SEX \\ Analysis of Variance \\ Demonstration 15.4: Instructing SPSS Statistics to Run ANOVA \\ A Statistical Toolbox: A Summary \\ Conclusion \\ Chapter 16. Suggestions for Further Bivariate Analyses \\ Demonstration 16.1: Desired Family Size \\ Child-Rearing \\ Attitudes About Sexual Behavior \\ Demonstration 16.2: Investigating Sexual Permissiveness Further \\ Additional Resources \\ Conclusion \\ PART IV. MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS \\ Chapter 17. Multiple Causation: Examining Religiosity in Greater Depth \\ Multiple Causation \\ Demonstration 17.1: The Impact of Age and Sex on Religiosity \\ Demonstration 17.2: Family Status and Religiosity \\ Demonstration 17.3: Family Status and Religiosity, Controlling for Age \\ Demonstration 17.4: Social Class and Religiosity \\ Other Variables to Explore \\ Chi-Square and Measures of Association \\ Multiple Regression \\ Conclusion \\ Chapter 18. Dissecting the Political Factor \\ Political Philosophy and Party Identification \\ Demonstration 18.1: Controlling for Education \\ Demonstration 18.2: The Mystery of Politics and Marital Status \\ Political Issues \\ Conclusion \\ Chapter 19. A Powerful Prediction of Attitudes Toward Abortion \\ Religion and Abortion \\ Demonstration 19.1: Religious Affiliation and Church Attendance \\ Demonstration 19.2: Religious Affiliation, Church Attendance, and Abortion \\ Politics (POLREC, PARTY) and Abortion (ABORT) \\ Demonstration 19.3: The Interaction of Religion and Politics on Abortion Attitudes \\ Demonstration 19.4: Constructing an Index of Ideological Traditionalism \\ Sexual Attitudes and Abortion \\ Demonstration 19.5: Recode PREMARSX and HOMOSEX \\ Demonstration 19.6: The Relationship Between Sexual Permissiveness and IND \\ Conclusion \\ Chapter 20. Suggestions for Further Multivariate Analyses \\ Ideal Family Size and Abortion \\ Child-Rearing \\ The Protestant Ethic \\ Capital Punishment, Gender, and Race \\ Demonstration 20.1: CAPPUN by SEX \\ Demonstration 20.2: CAPPUN by SEX, Controlling for RACE \\ Conclusion \\ PART V. THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES \\ Chapter 21. Designing and Executing Your Own Survey \\ The Social Research Process and Proposal \\ Designing and Executing Your Own Survey \\ Getting Ready for Data Analysis Using SPSS Statistics \\ Step 1: Define Your Data \\ Demonstration 21.1: Example 1—Defining ID \\ Demonstration 21.2: Example 2—Defining CHLDIDEL \\ Demonstration 21.3: Copying a Variable \\ Demonstration 21.4: Saving Your New File \\ Step 2: Edit and Code Your Data \\ Demonstration 21.5: Accessing File Information for Coding and Editing \\ Step 3: Enter Your Raw Data \\ Demonstration 21.6: Moving Through Data View \\ Demonstration 21.7: Entering Data \\ Demonstration 21.8: Revising or Deleting Data \\ Demonstration 21.9: Saving Your Data File \\ Writing a Research Report \\ Conclusion \\ Chapter 22 Further Opportunities for Social Research \\ The Unabridged GSS \\ Other Data Sets \\ Other Computer Programs \\ Conclusion \\ Appendix A: The Codebook \\ Appendix B: Questionnaire for Class Survey \\ Index/Glossary

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